Hi there, my name is Akshay & I'm a Product Manager!

I am on a personal mission to empower the under-privileged with technology by building world-class products and using BI, data science, & ML as tools to drive business innovation.

🚀✈️ My Dream ✈️🚀

Help manifest conversational ecommerce, 5G IoT revolution, edge computing, sustainable energy & Cloud for All.

🎯 Activities 🙇🏻

• Building new products and capabilities at LeaseQuery to help it transition from single product company to multi-product platform
• Data pro with 3 years in shipping data-driven solutions for global business teams in ecommerce, finance, product & growth analytics.
• Partnered with industry in multiple projects, leveraging NLP & ML to generate actionable insights and product ideas for stakeholders
• Author for "Towards Data Science" & "Python in Plain English", 2 leading data related Medium publications

🏆 Honors ✏️

• Academic: Dean's List 2019, Honors List 2020 @Purdue
• Winner: Google Data Hackathon, Purdue Chapter
• Selected Competitor: INFORMS Business Analytics Conference 2020, Denver (industry poster)
• Leadership: Executive Board Member, Krannert Graduate Student Organizations - GWIB, KABC @Purdue

🔭 I’m currently working on 🌱

• Using AI/ML to create cutting-edge MVPs and POCs
• Product management/Leadership skills

💬 Want to connect? 📫

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaymadar/

⚡ Fun fact 😀

I love travel, F1, music. My top 3 tech channels: MKBHD, Unbox Therapy, TechCrunch